Thursday, March 13, 2008

[EDIT] Some of you asked for a pic BEFORE, and my lashes have always been pretty long, (you can refer to some OLD FOTD's), the Ardell just made it THICKER and durable like I mentioned. And again, the pic below are naked lashes, nothing on them...

There was so much feedback on my product review of the Ardell Growth Accelerator, so I thought id finally put up some pics of results after 2 weeks of treatment:

These pictures are on a clean face WITHOUT mascara or primer on lashes:

My eyelashes are a lot longer and thicker, and very strong and resilient. No need for falsies, with mascara they are volumized and long!

I wish I could go without makeup. It's sadly a mask for me where I have to leave the house with something, like mascara or lipgloss or else I feel completely naked and when I talk to people they are just staring at every imperfection. I think that once people get used to seeing you one way, it's weird when you don't have any on, and well vice versa (usually non-makeup gal, then one day she looks like she could be Heidi Klum's sister!), some people say that with little or no makeup my hispanic ethnicity is more apparent, as I assume eyeliner makes me lose my crease so it looks like I have a monolid...but to me, I just look like I am 12 w/o makeup, LOL.

I just like days when my face can 'breathe'....I just may be sporting a more 'sans makeup' look every now and then.

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thanks for posting pictures! :] i need that stuff for my brows... and fast. LOL. :P i get the spanish thing alot with or without makeup on. it's odd. :P it's even weirder when people start speaking to you in spanish and they're all like, "oh, you're not hispanic?" lol. :P

Ohhh, I definitely have to get up on some of that Ardell!!! And fast! I know what you mean about not wearing make-up and feeling younger. I've actually stopped wearing it completely (except liner and gloss) to go with the more natural look. I think I lost myself in make-up for a minute. Either way......you are beautiful and divine.

I really tempted to try the Ardell Lash and Brow Accelerator. Where can you buy these at? Target?

I know how you feel about leaving the house without makeup. I feel so naked without makeup. At the very least, I need foundation and concealer to cover up my acne. Maybe if I had perfect clear skin, I could do without it.

hi hon...that stuff really works wonders! i noticed it more on my bottom lashes but I need to be more diligent with using it every night...as far as with or without makeup on, you look fab either way...for a while I purposely forced myself not to wear makeup so I could be okay with my own natural beauty...now I can go either way and be fine!

Whoooooaaaaa, those are some serious lashes! Would you by any chance have a before pic of your naked lashes? If not, how much would you say the difference is between the before and after?

I'm using Mavala at the moment (though recently I've been slacking, forgetting to put it on at night because my sleeping cycle is completely screwed up), and while some days I think it works, on others I'm not too sure. After I finish the bottle I'm using now, I might look into getting Ardell. :)

oh my goodness, i totally agree. i've worn make up since i was 12 but only unnoticeable things like clear mascara and concealer to hide a pimple. i'm 18 now and i've only started getting into make-up over the past 8 months and now i can never leave the house without a full face of foundation, concealer, mascara, blush etc... :(

i also started using ardell around the same time you blogged about it. i have similar eyelashes as you -- long but straight so i use an eyelash curler everyday. since i heat up my eyelash curler, the rubber started to rip where it clamps... and that caused SOOO many eyelashes to fall out. it looked so funny because i still had a few ridiculously long ones, but the rest of my eye area was really sparse! plus, more fell out before they could regrow themselves. ardell did a great job of strengthening my eyelashes so they have a chance to re-grow. now my lashes are finally close to where they were before and i can wear mascara again without fearing that i'll lose some lashes when i wash it off.

ok i know this comment is getting long, but since we have similar lashes i wanna recommend something! maybe you've tried it... but what i do is curl my eyelashes and then apply mascara. i give them a bit to dry, then i heat up my eyelash curler between my straightener for 5 seconds, and curl at the base. this gives my eyelashes look like really long and thick. almost like hayden panettiere's. lol if you watch heroes, you'll probably find yourself staring at her eyelashes all episode since they do a lot of close ups, and she has the shocked face on all the time.

hi, vanessa! thanks so much for the review. this product is something i really need. i've been trying to grow out my brows for FOREVER, but no luck. i even went to ulta since it's close to my work, but they were all out! i'm thinking you might have something to do with it... haha j/k. anyway, i ended up just ordering it from ebay, since it was about the same cost.

I heard you can condition and strengthen your lashes with vitamin e as well. I have used vit e on my lashes on and off and it has worked but it can be messy since vit e is quite sticky. And you have to be careful not too get on your... waterline? I don't know what which part of the eye it is but if you get the vit e on the fleshy part of your eyes you can wake up with dry and red eyes. It's not permanent but it can be inconvenient.

lol I totally agree about people getting used to you looking a certain way and then feeling weird when it changes. I've been non-makeup my whole life and I just started getting into makeup and so far I actually haven't tried much because I know people will be able to tell the difference and it will be so obvious. So far I've only experimented with very subtle makeup because of that. I'm a little apprehensive to do anything more obvious.

Girl, if you're as old as I am, you'll be glad to still have people (including yourself) told you that you look about 12 without make up. On good day, I'm ecstatic when people told me I look a couple of years younger than my age.

It's funny back when I was in my 20s when people thought me I looked much younger, I used to feel mad.

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